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Which teacher or staff member at Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
381
Elementary
DISTRICT 434 · STATE 453
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. CHARLES PARISH·NCES 220144000243
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School
140 Plantation Road, Destrehan, LA 70047 · (985) 725-0123 · St. Charles Parish
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL381 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 61% of Louisiana public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Louisiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 14.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
159 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 70%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 122 | 32% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 36% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 65% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
LEAP 2025 2025-26 . % Mastery+English Language Arts
55.0%
LA avg 41.8% . +15.0pp since 2022
Math
57.0%
LA avg 34.2% . +4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the LEAP 2025, Louisiana's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Louisiana schools, those numbers are about 42 and 34. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
LEAP 2025 results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 55.0% | 57.0% |
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 53.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 53.0% |
| 2022-23 | 40.0% | 53.0% |
% Mastery+, all students and all tested grades.
Source: LEAP 2025. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on LA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Louisiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Louisiana's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School's state test result (46.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School this school | 381 | 41.7% | 46.8% |
| New Sarpy Elementary School Destrehan | 417 | 37.9% | N/A |
| A.C. Steere Elementary School Shreveport | 443 | 46.5% | 41.0% |
| Mimosa Park Elementary School Luling | 440 | 38.2% | N/A |
| Stockwell Place Elementary School Bossier City | 496 | 44.0% | 65.7% |
| Phoenix Magnet Elementary School Alexandria | 314 | 47.1% | 80.7% |
Matched among Louisiana elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Louisiana | In St. Charles Parish |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #134 of 583 | #4 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #75 of 582 ▲ 26 | #2 of 6 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #127 of 587 ▲ 40 | #2 of 6 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.5pp | #60 of 540 | #3 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 381 | #425 of 714 | #7 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #67 of 655 | #8 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.5% | #141 of 655 | #3 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.7% | #658 of 705 | #5 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.9% | #226 of 436 | #4 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
381
-43 (-10%) vs 2020
-30% since 2000-01, when it was 543
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 16.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 381 | 35.9 | 10.6:1 | 42% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 34.2 | 11.9:1 | 44% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 427 | 28.3 | 15.1:1 | 43% (183) |
| 2020-21 | 424 | 26 | 16.3:1 | 36% (154) |
| 2017-18 | 453 | 29.6 | 15.3:1 | 50% (228) |
| 2015-16 | 427 | 35 | 12.2:1 | 52% (223) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 47% (214) |
| 2000-01 | 543 | 38 | 14.3:1 | 26% (143) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (453 to 381); teachers up 21% (29.6 to 35.9).
About Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is a small elementary school in St. Charles Parish, located in Destrehan, Louisiana. The school enrolls 381 students in grades 3 through 5.
St. Charles Parish has 8,756 students in 15 schools, and Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School are White (54%). The rest of enrollment is 27% Black, 12% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of St. Charles Parish's population at about 64%. The diversity index for Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
For every teacher at Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School, there are about 10.6 students; the school has 35.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Louisiana average 14.0:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 42%.
Among Louisiana public elementary schools, Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School outscored 61%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 54.3% for a school in Louisiana with Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School posts 46.8%.
Census data for St. Charles Parish show the median household earns about $80,897 a year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School, St. Charles Parish has 15 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is closest to New Sarpy Elementary School, about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School places 3rd out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 424 (2020-21) to 381 (2024-25). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 16.3:1 to 10.6:1.
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St. Charles Parish at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
51,396
Census ACS
Median income
$80,897
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
15
8,756 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Charles Parish
- Destrehan High SchoolHigh · 1,435 students
- Hahnville High SchoolHigh · 1,416 students
- J.B. Martin Middle SchoolMiddle · 733 students
- Harry M. Hurst Middle SchoolMiddle · 685 students
- Luling Elementary SchoolElementary · 653 students
- St. Rose Elementary SchoolElementary · 540 students
Other schools in Destrehan
- Destrehan High SchoolHigh · 1,435 students
- Harry M. Hurst Middle SchoolMiddle · 685 students
- New Sarpy Elementary SchoolElementary · 417 students
Nearby schools
- New Sarpy Elementary School0.1 mi · 417
- Destrehan High School0.8 mi · 1,435
- Harry M. Hurst Middle School1.8 mi · 685
- R.K. Smith Middle School3.1 mi · 303
- Norco Elementary School3.5 mi · 501
- Luling Elementary School3.7 mi · 653
Frequently asked questions
About Ethel Schoeffner Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School?
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School enrolls approximately 381 students in grades 03-05.
Is Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades 03-05.
How many teachers does Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School have?
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School are roughly 54% White, 12% Hispanic, 27% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School public or private?
Ethel Schoeffner Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by St. Charles Parish.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.